I did the same thing, too! I ended up having like, a whole row of A’s at one point because I guessed on a whole passage ._. I mean, I did decently in the class and I fully understand the material, it’s just the AP test is simply screwing with you since it makes you feel skeptical of your own knowledge xD
And I didn’t even know there were different forms until today, whoops.
when will the college board officially release the solutions/questions for the FRQs?
Questions in 2 days, scoring guidelines in a few weeks
Er I’m not sure if I’m being generous but i feel like i got 35+/46 on frq and around 30-45 on MC LOL there was just some weird stuff that I’d never covered. However, if I get like 80% on frq and 65% on MC (hopefully that’s at worst) then i should get 5? not sure 
I self-studied and it seems like a lot of people who took the class at my school weren’t prepared and felt that they will get 3s or 4s also.
Hey guys! Is the consensus that form O was pretty difficult? I found both the multiple choice and the FRQ’s challenging, but at least I was able to finish both.
Looks like it, I had difficulties as well. Does anyone know if the different forms will be on different grading curves? @broncoboots12
I’d like to know if the different forms will be graded differently as well. Form O did seem pretty tough.
is no one gonna talk about form c??? I thought it was pretty difficult
Do you think more people got form o cuz a lot of people here are commenting on it
I’m assuming a lot of people got Form O. Are there only two types of forms? I thought the forms were basically the same, just with the questions tweaked a bit, but I’m probably wrong. This was the first time I took an exam for an AP Science.
I BARELY finished both MCQ and FRQ without checking them. I mean, I expected that I would have at least 5~10 minutes to check the answers. Even though the exam format changed a few years ago, I did Princeton Review and Barrons over and over. However, as you all know, the MCQ was more passage, diagram, and/or graph- based questions that connect with several questions. For #1~3 on the FRQ, the questions were experimental-based questions. I have solved the FRQ from 2014, and 2015 one was little bit shorter for sure. Now what we all have to do is to pray for the curve to be lenient…
I’ve seen a few concerns about multiple forms and their curves. This might clear up a few things. Firstly, the forms for the FRQs are very different. College Board even admits that it is impossible to expect them to be the exact same difficulty, however this leads to point 2. College Board assumes that students taking the two forms have comparable abilities so they curve is standardized in such a way to have equal distribution of scores amongst both forms. This means that if they decide that 18% of students will get 5s, they may make the cutoff on one form 74% and the other form 66% so that both forms have 18% of the students that took that particular form get 5s. So both forms will have equal percentages of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s.
All of these cutoffs are only determined after exams are graded and the statisticians go to work with all of the data they have received.
I feel like the FRQs were easier than the MC. I knew about 30 MC… Had to guestimate on the rest. But the frq, I only left about 4 i’s undone because of a lack of time. But I’m confident about the rest of my answers…so…41/46 and ~30/60? What does that look like?
No. They release the questions for the main version of the FRQ in 48 hours; the answers are posted end of July/Beginning of August
Does anyone know if they don’t accept calculations for the frq if we don’t state assumptions?
Here’s a tip for next year AP Chem students. Never, EVER, use Learnerator.com That site is complete B.S. Our school paid for a subscription so we were required to do a certain amount of questions every week. These questions were awful, full of typos, multiple answers, and totally unlike the ones I saw on the test. I honestly felt like I was unlearning by using this site. Do yourself a favor and pick up a good Pearson or Barrons review book and work through problems front to back.
Cramming the night before was not such a good idea. All I did was study my three reviews and a practice test. I was feeling confident the day before but when I started the MC, my mind went blank. It was terrible, I couldn’t recall anything I had “studied” the night before. And the FRQ’s were just as worse because I only knew how to do the first problem. Other than that, it just went downhill from there. I really have no hopes of scoring a 3 on this test sadly. I wish I had prepared the month before. Overall, I felt I would’ve had an better time if I had put in the time and effort over the school year instead of cramming.
The MC was a bit easier then I thought but not the FRQ’s. I mostly guessed with simple answers. I wrote an apology letter during the 30 minutes left.
Yeah to the guy who took form c. I was only able to find 6 people who had that form, myself included. I thought the MC was fair but the free response was a bit on the hard side. From what I’ve heard from the other c people, it was pretty tough. Good thing is that the curve is better if most people did bad. I’ve gotten mix response for form o. Some people told me it was easy, and fair, and others said it was a slaughter house.
I feel horrible lol, getting a confidence boost about my score by reading all of these posts of people who claim they did horribly.
I saw something on AP Trevor’s Twitter last year about APs not actually being graded on a bell curve, despite everyone thinking so, and something on here about the curves of SATs/APs being established by ETS before any of us actually take the exams. (His proof: ~60% or some other ridiculous number of people got 5s on the AP Chinese exam).
Is this true?